According to Campus Reform, “More than 45 student groups at George Washington University (GWU) signed a petition calling on the school administration to declare the school a ‘sanctuary campus’ for illegal immigrants.”
Like much of academia, GWU is a hotbed of open borders liberalism.
In this specific case, the petition was launched by The GW Socialist Action Initiative.
The group, according to Washington Free Beacon, issued demands for the university, “among the demands were banning federal immigration enforcement officials from entering campus and refusing to cooperate with government surveillance or deportation efforts.”
The Socialist radicals also issued a threat that “any deal that GW could reach with the Trump Administration will harm student life and wellbeing.”
These demands were not without precedent at this university. Previously, GWU’s chapter of Students For Justice In Palestine made a similar demand on May 3rd, “calling on the administration to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and reject compliance with federal deportation orders.”
Students For Justice In Palestine also called President Trump’s policies a “terror campaign” and said the university was taking “blood money” by agreeing to comply with federal immigration law.
In yet another example of irrational intersectionality Students for Justice In Palestine circulated a petition saying the University’s silence in the face of federal intimidation is “violence against its noncitizen community members.”
The petition continued, “While schools across the nation stand tall against [Department of Homeland Security] and ICE cruelty, GW has promised to ‘do what is required’ to continue receiving this administration’s blood money.”
Like other absurd campus groups, they use euphemisms to obscure their true intent. Noncitizen means illegal.
This is but one absurd example of leftist open borders activism on this campus. Previously, GWU faculty announced the formation of a Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter, expressing support for divestment from Israel and solidarity with radical student demonstrators.
The University has previously come under federal scrutiny.
The Trump Justice Department concluded GWU violated civil rights laws by not addressing harassment against pro-Israel students in 2024 during the anti-Israel protests.
The DOJ wrote, “The administration took no meaningful action and allowed abhorrent, immoral, and illegal conduct to persist.”
